Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.